Turki al-Binali

Turki al-Binali (3 September 1984-) was the Grand Mufti of the Islamic State.

Biography
Turki al-Binali was born on 3 September 1984 in al-Muharraq, Bahrain to a wealthy and notable family with ties to the ruling Khalifa family. He became a hafiz, memorizing the whole Quran, and he attended college in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before he was deported due to his extremist beliefs. al-Binali was taught by radicals Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and Omar al-Haddouchi, and he traveled to Abyan in Yemen to meet al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leaders. In June 2013, he headed to Sirte in Libya and gave a series of lectures, and he headed to Syria in February 2014. There, he became a recruiter for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) foreign fighters, and he also wrote pamphlets and literature to indoctrinate locals into Salafism and to call on Sunnis to recognize Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph. On 31 January 2015, his Bahraini citizenship was revoked.